Horrific violence and valiant struggles for peace kind of go with the territory that I cover in my work in Latin American and the Caribbean for The United Church of Canada. As I left Colombia on Saturday, the news was of the massacre of 10 farm-workers whose employer may have refused a “vacuna” (literally […]

While the world’s eyes are focused today on the U.S. election, people in Colombia have their eyes on Havana where a preliminary conversation between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla army will take place.

On the agenda is the search for a mechanism that will allow some measure of participation by “civil society”—a […]